Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance and Foundations

Overview

Instacart’s Data Governance and Foundations team builds the core infrastructure that keeps our data trusted, secure, and compliant across every region where we operate. We partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Security, and Engineering to translate regulatory requirements like SOX and GDPR into resilient, scalable systems that power safe data access and accelerate the business.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and deliver platform capabilities for policy management, role-based data access, auditing, data classification, and lineage across Instacart’s modern data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Iceberg, Trino). Your work will directly enable product teams, analysts, and data scientists to innovate confidently while meeting stringent privacy and compliance standards.

You’ll join a collaborative team of 6–7 engineers focused on foundational infrastructure, with opportunities to lead high-impact architecture, i...